Mother Earth Foundation PH

16/10/2026

Today, as the world works to ensure nutritious food is available and accessible for all, we must also build systems that prevent food waste. When unsegregated food waste ends up in landfills, it generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. But we can address this challenge at the source.

At Mother Earth Foundation PH, we advance community-based organics management that transforms organic waste from a problem into a resource.

We believe in supporting households with the systems and knowledge to reduce waste seamlessly through:
📄 Smart Meal Planning: Being intentional in purchasing and preparing for the right amount of consumption.
🤝 Community Meal Sharing: Ensuring surplus food feeds people, not landfills.
🦴 Animal Feeding: Directing safe leftovers to pets or farm animals.
🌱 Food Waste Management: Transforming unavoidable food scraps into biogas, compost, and valuable resources.

Through intentional consumption, source segregation, and waste management, we can reduce methane emissions, strengthen circular systems, and create opportunities for green jobs.

This World Food Day, let us empower families to journey toward food sovereignty and build truly regenerative communities.

15/10/2026

A solution to a warming planet can also start at home 💡🍂♻️

When we partner with local governments, engage with waste workers and waste pickers, and mobilize households, we enable a system that keeps organics out of landfills, helping to reduce methane emissions, and mitigate plastic pollution in our oceans. 💚

Mother Earth Foundation PH is a 2026 Finalist for The Earthshot Prize in the Build a Waste-Free World category.

10/10/2026

05/10/2026

🌏 NEXT STOP: PHILIPPINES! 🇵🇭 💚

The 2nd Regional Congress on Organics and Climate has come to a close. We move from Jakarta with renewed commitments and an exciting announcement:

THE 3RD REGIONAL CONGRESS ON ORGANICS AND CLIMATE IS COMING TO THE PHILIPPINES! 🇵🇭 🎉

Over two days, September 23 and 24, city leaders, grassroots organizations, waste workers and waste pickers, practitioners, and climate allies from across Asia Pacific gathered to tackle one of the most urgent yet overlooked climate challenges: organic waste and methane emissions.

Beyond sharing ideas, this year’s Congress was about securing grounded commitments to scale proven models and systems. That’s why we were thrilled to highlight Mother Earth Foundation PH's KOOL PH (Keeping Organics Out of Landfills) campaign, which tackles methane reduction emissions at its source, and to launch the 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟎𝟎: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞, our flagship initiative to help 100 Philippine Local Government Units institutionalize Zero Waste systems and policies by 2030!

Now, the movement heads home. Hosting the Congress in the Philippines feels like a full-circle moment. For years, our communities have pioneered decentralized waste management.

Through programs like the Zero Waste Academy, we have co-created and tested solutions, learned from the process, and built frameworks that many local leaders across the world have since adapted in their own cities.

We are honored to welcome the region back to where so many of these collaborative journeys began!

From India to Jakarta, and now the Philippines, the regional movement keeps growing. Mother Earth Foundation is proud to co-host the next Regional Congress on Organics and Climate with fellow Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) members, the Philippine National Waste Workers' Alliance (PNWWA) and the Zero Waste Cities Network - Philippines (ZWCN - PH).

We can’t wait to welcome our partners, colleagues, and fellow changemakers to the Philippines!



𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘭𝘰𝘦 𝘛𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦

05/10/2026

Taking our Zero-Waste mission global!

Our President, Arlen A. Ancheta, will represent Mother Earth Foundation at the Zero Waste Management Conference 2.0 in Kuching, Malaysia.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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26/09/2026

25/09/2026

If Zero Waste is to become the norm rather than the exception, local action needs to happen at scale. 🚀

Speaking at the 2nd Regional Congress on Organics and Climate Change, Rap Villavicencio (Director for Programs, Mother Earth Foundation) shares a bold next step for Philippine communities: 𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐔𝐏 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊.

Through various partnerships, Mother Earth Foundation has already:
🤝 Supported cities achieving up to 89% waste diversion.
🍂 Engaged over 1,000 waste workers in organic waste management.
🌏 Cut methane emissions by diverting organic waste from landfills.

Now, we are taking it further with RACE TO 100: The Philippine Zero Waste Challenge—an initiative designed to scale Zero Waste Local Government Units from 50 today to at least 100 by 2030.

The 2nd Regional Congress on Organics and Climate is organized by Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA); Dietplastik Indonesia; and Aliansi Zero Waste Indonesia



Photo by: Dietplastik Indonesia

25/09/2026

“This is more than a waste management challenge. It is an opportunity to reduce methane, create green jobs, support waste workers/waste pickers, and strengthen local economies.”

At the 2nd Regional Organics Congress, Ranz Lebria shared a key lesson from our work at Mother Earth Foundation (MEF):

Financing organics management means investing not just in infrastructure, but in the people and systems that turn waste into value.

From decentralized collection to formalizing informal waste workers, building zero-waste communities requires investing in both the infrastructure and the people running it.

The strategy is clear:
🌱 Start with one working system.
📊 Build the evidence.
📈 Finance the next one.

The 2nd Regional Congress on Organics and Climate is organized by Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA); Dietplastik Indonesia; and Aliansi Zero Waste Indonesia



Photo by: Dietplastik Indonesia

24/09/2026

Day 2 of the 2nd Regional Organics Congress is now live!

Join us as we continue the conversations and learning around organics, climate action, and Zero Waste solutions across the region.

📲 Watch the livestream here:⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYuIq_7iVU8

Day 2 of 2nd Regional Congress on Organics and Climate Change from ...